Hoop for barrels



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G. SOUTHER. HO 0P POE BAR'RELS, FAILS, OR T UBS- No. 379,997. Patented Mar. 27, 1888;

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 379,997, dated March 27. 1888.

Application filed February 3, 1888. Serial No. 262,947. (No model.)

- To all whom it, may concern.-

Iwire hoop,

,Be it known that I, GEORGE Son Ema citizen of the United States, and a res dent of -Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented new' and useful Improvements in Hoops for Barrels, Pails, or Tubs, of which the following, .taken in con fastening the ends of the corrugated wire hoop together and the improved wire bail=hinges. Fig. 2 represents a detail side view of a corrugated wire hoop and its fastening device. Fig. 3 represents a crosssection on the line A B, shown in Fig. 2; andi:Fig. 4 represents a detail view of the improved wire bail-hinge.

Similar letters refer to similar parts wherever they occur on the different parts of the drawings. g r I In the drawings, Fig. 1, a represents a pail, as usual, and b b represent corrugated wire hoops of the form and construction as shown and described in the patent to Eiselein above mentioned, and I wish. to state that I do not claim as my invention such corrugated wire hoops.

In making such corrugated wire hoops they are out ofi to the required length, according to the size of the pail or other similar article for which they are intended, after which the ends of 'each such hoop are secured together by means of the flattened tube a, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3-that is, the tube is slipped over the bent endslof the corrugated wire hoop.-

It will be noticed that the ends of the cor- Adolph Eiselein, dated tened tubec, are inclined to the perpendicular,

thus causing the fastening-tube c to be held firmly connected to such inclined ends of the corrugated lioopwire without any-liability of slipping ofittherefroxmas the hoop is ei p'anded when driven.

In fact, the more the wire hoop is expanded the more will the flattened. tube grip or hold on to the inclined'ends of thesaid wire hoop. In connection with the upper of rugated wire hoop, where they enter the fiat-v said corrugated Wirehoopsb, I use an improved 1 wire bail-hinge, as shown in Figs. 1 and 4, that consists of a bent wire, donbledupon itself in" its upper end, and there provided with an eye or loop, d',jadapted to lower ends of the bail e, as shown. I: The lower receive the ends of the bail-hinge wire d haveieyes or loops (2 d", adapted to encircle the" upper curves of the corrugated hoop b, as shown in Figs. land 4, and by this arrangementl'dis-- pense with the usual plates riveted to the pail or other receptacle a, thus effecting a simple, strong, and durable connection betweenthe curved bail e and thenpperhoop, b, as shown.

I What I wish to secure by Letters Patent and claim is- 1. In combination with the corrugated wire I) and its inclined ends, the flattened tubes 0, securing the ends of said corrugat 3d wire hoop together, substantially as set forth.

The pail a, or other receptacle, and its corrugated wire hoop I combined with the bail-hinge wire-d, having an eyeor loop. (1, in its upper end-engagingihe lower end of the bail-wire e, and having eyes or loops d" d" in its lower end hinged to the corrugated hoop:

wire I), substantially as and for the purpose set forth In testimony whereof I have signed my name tothis specification,in the presence of two sub-.

scribing witnesses, on this 23d day of January, A; D, 1888.

. GEORGE SOUTHER.

\Vitnesses: I i

. s nglet ANDREN, a HENRY OHADBOURN. 

